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ABSOLUTIST CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR WRITINGS

1939-1943

W. J. Sidis

[Various mimeographed handouts, totaling 20 pages; presumedly unpublished; some archived in the Eichel Papers, Swarthmore College Peace Collection; the rest found in Helena Sidis's files, 1977.]

"The "absolutist" conscientious objector is the sort that will refuse
―regardless of the penalty―to engage in any form of war work,
the individual's conscience being the last resort in determining
exactly what constitutes war work."

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS*

I Proclamation of the Liberty War Objectors Association
II Introducing the L.W.O.A.
III Memorandum on Objectors' Camps
IV Legal Provisions, Present Policy, History, Proposed Plan, etc.
V General Projects for Conscientious Objectors
VI

On Projects for Absolutist Conscientious Objectors
VII Brief for Volunteer Urban Self-Supporting Projects
VIII Proposed Bill Regarding Absolutist Objectors to War Work
IX Constitution of the American War Objectors League
X On the "General Projects" Plan
XI Issues of The Orarch
XII Letter to Bureau of Prisons re Volunteer Work for Objectors

XIII

Letter re Geprodis Project as a Volunteer Urban Self-Supporting Project
XIV Two letters re periodical The Libertarian

Appendix

"Railroading" in the Past

 

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* Note:  I have tried to order the Table of Contents roughly from the general to the specific, there being no particular order to them as found. Suggestions welcome.―Dan Mahony